A survey study was conducted to acquire the first hand information on Personal and socio-economic characteristics and Knowledge of farm women regarding dairy husbandry in Junagadh district of Gujarat state, India. A simple random sampling technique was used in the selection of dairy farm women. The total sample constitutes 200 dairy farm women, four talukas and five village from each taluka. Total ten (10) respondents selected from each village of the district. The data were collected by personal interview technique through a structural schedule. In Personal and socio-economic characteristics, majority (73.50 %) of the farm women belonged to middle age group, 31 per cent of the farm women were educated up to primary level of education. Majority (44 %) of the dairy farm women were from SEBC caste category, majority (72 %) of the farm women belonged to low level of income (<150000 rupees) group, majority (68.50 %) and (41.50 %) of the farm women belonged to the joint type and large size of families, respectively. Majority (53.50 %) of the farm women respondents were with Marginal land holding i.e. up to 1.00 hectare. Great majority (94.50 %) of farm women had major occupation of animal husbandry along with agriculture. Nearly half of the respondents (47 %) had low social participation, Majority (65.50 %) of the farm women were found with medium experience in dairy farming. Majority (75.50 %) of the farm women used medium sources of information for obtaining information about dairy farming and Majority (57.50 %) of the farm women had medium sized milch animals. In Knowledge of farm women regarding dairy husbandry include majority (63.50%) of the farm women had medium level of knowledge regarding general aspects. Higher number of farm women had knowledge about feeding practices and breeding practices. Maximum (73.50%) farm women had knowledge regarding management of milch animals. Half (55.0%) of the farm women had knowledge about milk and milk products and health care practices of milch animals in dairy husbandry.

Madhya Pradesh contributes 17.5% of the total wheat production of country. National Food Security Mission (NFSM) launched during 11th Five Year Plan to enhance farm profitability so that the farming community retains its confidence in farming activity. This study confined to NFSM-Wheat for 300 beneficiaries from the two NFSM districts i.e. Harda (highest production) and Balaghat (lowest production) of Madhya Pradesh. The study revealed that the major source of awareness of NFSM among the sample beneficiaries was found to be Agriculture Department (99.7%) followed by T.V/radio (94%), farmers/ friends (93.3%), news paper (82.0%), input suppliers (11.3%), Krishi Vigyan Kendra (10.7%), State Agricultural Universities (6.7%) and Agri-Exhibitions (3.7%). The maximum benefits per HHs was found to be availed through rotavators (Rs. 84,500) followed by seed drills (Rs. 45,530), sprinklers (Rs. 21,809), pump sets (Rs. 21,599) and pipeline (Rs. 20,648), while in other items benefits varies from Rs. 387 to Rs. 3218.7/HH. The average total cost (Rs./HH benefited) was found to be Rs. 2,03,503 and they were benefited by 45.7 per cent subsidy. The imputed value for using farm equipments was found to be more in case of seed drill as compared to others. The maximum number of NFSM HHs (80%) expressed that irrigation water can be saved by using pipelines as it reduces labours and cost of cultivation. The use of sprinkler benefited also driving by saving water, good plant growth, reduction the cost of cultivation and solving the problem of shortage of labour in wheat cultivation.

A field experiment was conducted to study the genetic variability parameters, heritability and expected genetic advance for morpho-physiological, yield and quality traits in bread wheat under late sown irrigated condition in hundred bread wheat genotypes. The analysis of variance for all the morpho-physiological, yield and yield contributing and quality characters revealed highly significant differences except for chlorophyll content reading at anthesis indicate the presence of substantial genetic variation among the genotypes for all the traits. The variability among different genotypes varied highly for all the characters under study. The magnitude of range for Chlorophyll content reading at anthesis was ranged from 45.10 to 55.93 with the mean value of 50.34, canopy temperature at anthesis from 22.48 to 28.75 with the mean value 26.18, days to heading from 47.50 to 74.50 with the mean value of 58.75, thousand grain weight from 11.80 to 47.80 with the mean value of 33.74, protein content ranged from 13.90 to 20.25 with the mean value of 17.25 and sedimentation value varied from 42.50 to 83.00 with the mean value of 60.53. The high PCV and GCV values were recorded for traits like flag leaf width, relative water content, leaf waxyness, number of productive tillers per meter and grain yield, which indicates that, these characters have high variability that in turn offers good scope for selection. The high heritability estimates along with high genetic advance was obtained for flag leaf length, flag leaf width, flag leaf area, relative water content, leaf waxyness, days to fifty percent flowering, plant height, spike length, number of productive tillers per meter, number grains per spike, thousand grain weight, grain yield and sedimentation value. These traits are the most important to be taken into consideration for effective selection in wheat.

In order to study the seasonal incidence of stem fly infestation in soybean crop, a trial was sown at the Experimental Field, Department of Entomology, Adhartal, JNKVV. Jabalpur (M.P.) during Kharif season 2014-15. The stem fly, Melanagromyza sojae (Zehntner) is considered as a major pest attacking the soybean crop. It was seen that the infestation of stem fly was first observed at 29th SW (third week of July). Thereafter, gradual increasing trend remain continued in subsequent weeks till 39th SW (fourth week of September). The parasitoid was observed from the vegetative stage till maturity of the crop.

A field experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of molybdenum and microbial inoculants on yield, nutrient contents, uptake and quality of soybean during the Kharif season of the year 2013 at research farm of JNKVV, Jabalpur. The experiment was laid out in randomized block design with four replications and nine treatments viz., T1 (control), T2 (Rhizobium), T3 (PSB), T4 (Rhizobium+PSB), T5 (0.5 kg Ammonium molybdate ha-1), T6 (T5 + Rhizobium), T7 (T5 + PSB), T8 (T6 + PSB) and T9 (1.0 g Ammonium molybdate kg-1 seed as seed treatment). The result revealed that the application of Mo with Rh+PSB gave the highest grain (1.85 t ha-1) and stover yield (3.52 t ha-1) and protein content (39.05%) in seed over control. Significant increase of N and P content in grain and stover and its uptake by soybean as well as protein content registered best with the application of Mo with Rh+PSB. This treatment also brought about substantial improvement in available nutrients (N, P, K and Mo) in soil.